Hatsune Miku fans are agog at the quality of Miku’s latest avatar – the “Tda” Append Miku model for MikuMikuDance, which looks as if it may bring her 3D fan-made videos to a whole new level.

MikuMikuDance, the 3D dance software used to create so many Vocaloid-related music videos, depends on fan-made 3D models of the various characters so beloved of Vocaloid fans – most notably Hatsune Miku herself.

One such fan, “Tda,” spent months lovingly recreating Miku in her “Append” outfit for use in MMD, resulting in the gorgeous creation below, which perhaps rivals even Sega’s live performance models.

Some of the videos she appears in so far (as she is new there are not many, and their quality varies):

Tda Miku in detail:

It even comes with an ahegao face, something Sega seems unlikely to ever be including in its performances…

Tda Miku is being sold as a ¥525 downloadable package including the various .mqo, .pmx, and .psd files of interest to MMD users (not very much of this is likely to be of use to non-3D graphics types; some parts are also available freely) – see her maker’s homepage or her product page for more information.

sidenote: her hair physics is kinda messed up at the moment. her hair gets confuse whether to bounce or wave.

other than that here are my other observations:

– The lights in he costume can be adjusted
– She has lots of eye expressions, pretty impressive
– Voice syncing has no problem, works like a charm
– I don’t know what that tentacle in the middle of her chest do, it can be adjusted too anyway
– Her file is HUGE! Upon extraction I got 200-300+ mb of a folder. Has plenty of photoshop files.
– Cannot be edited at the moment. Its a PMX file.

I notice she looks like some short haired anime princess except with a twintail. And she look more mature.
About boobs or no boobs, definitely miku with small boobs, cause small boobs is one of her character traits. Not too big, and definitely not fLAT, just a small lump is fine.
LAT model gave out that loli feeling of miku, while TDA is more beautiful and cute. Cant wait to see her in christmas outfit XD

Me too. Lat’s was already better than Sega’s. Tda is pretty but can you use her for any kind of song you want? I don’t think so. There are a ton of songs which a model like this is not flexible enough for.

She’s a near perfect model (Needs physics, which will be uploaded soon) for a 3D program that normally doesn’t have models this beautiful, at least for a price this low, and besides, some of us are sick of Lat-type Miku running around everywhere

not rigged for physics yet. But really nicely articulated/modeled joints, they collapse and stretch very well, even at the shoulders where a lot of MMD arms are just tubes extruded from the chest. I’m not a fan of the head or face though, but that’s a stylistic prefference. In terms of technical precision to properly functioning animation anatomy, it’s probably one of the best currently.

Really quality work there. I do have to have a minor complaint about using that particular version of Miku as a model though–how will we get shimapan upskirt shorts if she’s wearing that weird leotard thing instead?

You know, you can always convert and then open it up in compatible 3D softwares like Blender, Metasequoia or Maya to take out all those things by yourself.

In my opinion though, the pyro color scheme made her look more detailed than she really is. You can basically put the same color scheme or even bumpmap with textures on the old model and she’ll look more detailed too(though I’m not sure if MMD allows the two things).

Since MMD has recently entered the 8th cup, I suppose it won’t be long before we see full, feature length videos with this model.

But thanks to that belt, you see that the creator focused on giving Miku a nice ass! Seriously.

Anyhow, I find it odd that Miku’s hair does not move at all yet her twintails move way too much (weight set too low; makes the bones very apparent). Her eyes are also very weird… and from 45 degrees you see that her face is very flat and angular at the sides.
Her foot also is slightly odd. Most Miku models wear shoes or heels, and the way the foot is implemented is replacing the whole shoe with a foot; the foot’s bones are usually pointing slightly downwards and its as if this one does too.

Aside from that though, the facial expressions are quite something. Just those eyes are completely flat with respect to the face… Overall a very very VERY nice model. Paid? wow. just wow. seriously? >.>

This is the type of model that doesn’t take long to make really, in fact much of this stuff can be done in days for an experiences 3D artist, but the time it takes to do this stuff is all in the learning and experimenting and screwing around to figure out what makes the best outcome. The difference between a master and a newbie is the time it takes to make a masterpiece really.

I think she looks exceptionally adorable! 😀 I love it! Though, I’m not a guy who is all angry about the boob issue though. Boobs or no boobs, this is tens time better than the MMD 3D models that are out right now. Maybe SEGA should hire this guy.

Miku isn’t flat to begin with. In fact, even KEI’s original design of Miku has some decent lumps on her chest. Just be happy she wasn’t redesigned by a Bakunyu artist.

The whole “Miku has no boobs” thing is nothing but just a similar case to the inconsistency of Izayoi Sakuya’s breast size as depicted by fans and various artists; some think her a a busty maid, some believe hers are just around average, others speculate her as a pad-wearing pettanko.

Well, there’s a difference between “real” and “realistic”. To me, the “real” Miku is design in anime/manga style, like this 3D model. A realistic Miku, however, is something else (and thankfully in my mind it’s nothing like the first Toyota Miku).